Robot playing table tennis of Vietnam to Europe

The TOPIO version 2 robot, which is over 2 meters high, weighs 60 kg, has the ability to travel and play table tennis to travel to Nuremburg, Germany, on January 30, at the largest exhibition. the world of toys.

TOPIO 2.0 Robot. Photo: TOSY.

TOPIO is the first and only human-shaped table-tennis robot in the world, researched by 30 experts in programming, electronics, mechanics ... of TOSY Robotics JSC. Fabricated since 2005.

The leader of this TOPIO project is Ho Vinh Hoang - the captain of BKCT who won the Robocon Vietnam 2003, also won the 3rd prize and the most innovative idea of the Robocon Asia 2003 in Bangkok, Thailand. .

While TOPIO version 1 is hydraulic, 1.8 meters high, weighs 500 kg, has 6 legs and can not move, the robot version 2 is 2.1 meters high but only weighs 60 kg, there are 2 feet to move around and dance more softly. Considered as a technological leap forward compared to previous versions in many aspects, TOPIO 2.0 has 40 degrees of freedom by electric motors. Honda's Asimo robot has 34 degrees of freedom and Sony's Qrio robot has 38 degrees of freedom.

TOPIO 2.0 is equipped with control software modules such as high-speed image recognition, artificial neural networks, motion control, ballistic orbit prediction, vortex analysis. and collision ... However, programming specialist Nguyen Dinh Can said that due to new coordinated few days, TOPIO only reached the level playing table tennis at basic level.

In 2007, TOPIO version 1 appeared at IREX 2007 - the world's largest robot exhibition in Tokyo - the center of robot technology in the world.